I've had this 500GB Hitachi Deskstar SATA drive installed in an external USB case for about a year. It always worked very well and fast. Suddenly today, trying to save anything on this drive takes 10x longer than it used it. However, copying from this drive to my local PC is still fast.
I tried running WD DataLifeguard Diagnostics on it plus the basic Windows "scan this drive for errors" test - it came up with nothing alarming.
What could this be? Are there any other HD utilities that would test an external USB drive? Many of them don't.
I tried plugging it into a different USB port, but the result is the same.
I tried running WD DataLifeguard Diagnostics on it plus the basic Windows "scan this drive for errors" test - it came up with nothing alarming.
What could this be? Are there any other HD utilities that would test an external USB drive? Many of them don't.
I tried plugging it into a different USB port, but the result is the same.